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Yoga for Sexual Health – The Hip Upby Wendy StrgarMay 09, 20131 min readLearn to enhance your sex life with your yoga practice. Yoga for sexual health can be a transformative journey. In part 2 of our series on core strength, Wendy Strgar, Loveologist, and Caitlin Young, yoga instructor, demonstrate the Hip Up and the C Curve. These core yoga poses not only improve flexibility but also support yoga for pelvic floor health. Related Blog PostspH Balance: Essential Tips for Women's HealthAcid: A Natural Ally for Vaginal HealthSlow Sex: A Guide to Enhancing Intimacy with Good Clean Love's Natural Products.

“The only way that we can live is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself.”  -C. Joybell

 

I am coming to the end of an era in my life as my youngest daughter celebrates her...

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”  -Confucius

 

Life can easily become overwhelming. I have a knack for attracting more into a couple of hours than most people would consider in a couple of days. Today I got the physical evidence of how too much of a good thing is actually too much, but can also remain a good thing. As those of you who follow my positivity quest...

 “Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” -Carl Gustav Jung

 

It is that time of year again, when the garden performs its ritual magic of re-creating itself anew. Regardless of the challenging and changeable winter weather conditions, the perennials in the garden re-emerge each spring, a blooming demonstration of what it means to weather the storms of life. Perennials for me are the...

“The soul of sweet delight can never be defiled.”  -William Blake

We all have a sexual soul, or more accurately, a piece of our soul is reflected deeply in our sexuality. This sexual space that inhabits the deepest recesses of our consciousness is one of the most meaningful ways that we know ourselves, and, as the Bible suggests, is truly a garden. Yet, the metaphor of our sexuality as a garden...

"You must weed your mind as you would weed your garden. " ~Terri Guillemets I learned about weeds before I learned anything about gardens. For my 40th birthday my husband built me a beautiful, secure deer fence and I was told to use straw to augment and lighten the heavy clay soil. The straw turned out to be hay and seeded itself heartily throughout the space. I was overwhelmed with weeds that I had inadvertently planted.

“Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests, and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes parts of us away and deposits treasures we never imagined. No one would call it easy, but the rhythm of emotional pain that we learn to tolerate is natural, constructive, and expansive. It’s different from unwilling suffering the way the sting of disinfectant is different from the sting of decay;...

“The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.” –Richard Bach
 

I recently learned that the transformation of the caterpillar to a butterflyisn’t just about the effort of spinning their cocoon. Once inside, the caterpillar literally liquefies in its metamorphosis to its adult form as...

Sally Kempton author of “Meditation for the Love of It” and “Awakening the Shakti” talks about the power of letting go.
Visit TheOpeningDoor.org to listen to the full interview Saturday.